Design studio We Like Today has unveiled plans to "revive and repopulate" an area of Brighton and Hove's sea front, with a brightly coloured scheme made from a series of hut-like structures (+ slideshow).
Brighton-based We Like Today, the firm behind London's shipping-container shopping centre Boxpark, has teamed up with developers Copsemill Properties for the Sea Lanes.
The project aims to reconnect Brighton and Hove residents with the ocean by providing a variety of leisure attractions on the sea front.

The design is based on the architecture of Brighton and its "independent spirit", with a cluster of hut-like structures of various heights, finished in different materials, and bright colours and patterns.
"Brighton's history and development as a city is closely linked to the sea ? it has the oldest sea swimming club in the world ? but today there are no facilities to get changed, nowhere to leave your belongings while you're in the water," said the studio. "This new project will remedy that." Located along the seafront on Madeira Drive, in an area the studio described as derelict, Sea Lanes will include a 50-metre-long outdoor heated swimming pool and a new public boardwalk leading to the sea.
It will also include cafes and restaurants, yoga and exercise studios, therapy rooms, pop-up shops for special events, retail spaces, offices, and conference facilities.

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